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After two days of intensive examination and cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary dialogues, we believed that a better science dialogue was possible. So during the final day of the Beijing workshop on Promoting Social Embeddedness of New Biotechnologies, we tried to come up with … Continue reading →

After mappings out the tools and resources on the first day, day 2 of this Beijing workshop moved onto the practicals. In the morning, we had three consecutive sessions of ‘the Anatomy of An Idea’. A few participants pitch their idea on … Continue reading →

On 14 October 2019, our interdisciplinary workshop, ‘Promoting Social Embeddedness of New Biotechnologies:Co-Developing Public Engagement in and with China’  began! Coordinated by Dr. Joy Zhang (University of Kent, PI), Prof. Xian-En Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, PI),  Prof. Mark Smales … Continue reading →

We are delighted to announce that in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, we are to host a 3-day interdisciplinary workshop in October 2019. We aim to bring together and empower a new generation of bioscientists and social scientists … Continue reading →

Dr. Joy Zhang was invited to deliver two talks on key findings from this ESRC project at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing. Dr. Zhang first expressed her concern over a ‘public engagement-deficit’ in China’s rise as a … Continue reading →